Recycling and the case of the boomerang boxes

The cardboard boxes one reader just couldn't get rid of

SIR – I recently received a large parcel courtesy of FedEx that looked remarkably like a bundle of old, flattened cardboard boxes. Upon opening it, I was amazed to see that it was, indeed, a bundle of old, flattened cardboard boxes!

Closer inspection revealed that the outside box was one I had used to return some goods to a company in Milton Keynes, and it still had my address on it.

Clearly the company had put it by for recycling, but the ever-diligent delivery company had seen my address and decided that that was where it should go.

I’m all for recycling, but sending 500 per cent more cardboard that I had originally used over a distance of 100 miles is taking things a bit far.